Summer is full of trips and plans making it tough to get those assigned summer reading books read. Especially when they have to be packed into suitcases! Now the library offers another option. Take out one of our summer reading e-readers loaded with over one hundred books for grades seven through twelve. The readers can be taken out for two weeks (not renewable or reservable), perfect for a trip without bulky books or even a brief sleep away camp stint. Click here to see the entire catalog of available titles or stop by the reference desk. (E-readers must be checked out to an adult over the age of 18.)

On August 1st 1962, Marvel Comics introduced a new character.............SPIDERMAN. Fifty-one years later, kids are still fascinated by Spiderman. Go to the Marvel Kids website to learn fun facts about Spidey and his superhero friends-- Ironman, Captain America, Hulk, Falcon, Thor, and Wolverine. While you're there, read digital comic books, play fun games, color and draw your favorite characters in action. Then come to the library and check out our superhero collection, including picture books, early readers, paperback series, and graphic novels. We've got it all!

Hell Hath No Fury by Rosie HarrisRescue for a Queen by Fiona BuckleySerpent's Tooth by Craig JohnsonDecent Interval by Simon BrettGone with the Win by Mary DaheimSherlock Holmes and Frankenstein's Diary by Barry GrantSeventh Trumpet by Peter TremayneHen of the Baskervilles by Donna AndrewsPickle in the Middle Murder by Jessie ChandlerA Tine to Live, a Tine to Die by Edith MaxwellYarn to Go by Betty HechtmanGrace Takes Off by Julie HyzyDiva Digs Up Dirt by Krista DavisLet it Burn by Steve HamiltonUnleashed by David RosenfeltFirst Frost by James HenryNemesis by Bill PronziniHighway by C.J. BoxLast Whisper in the Dark by Tom PiccirilliDevil's Cave by Martin WalkerClaws of the Cat by Susan SpannNot the Killing Type by Lorna BarrettDeadly Forecast by Victoria LaurieDying Hours by Mark BillinghamTwelfth Department by William RyanCrocodile by Maurizio de GiovanniPoisoned Pilgrim by Oliver PotzschDeath Angel by Linda FairsteinBeast by Faye KellermanThe Terrorist Next Door by Sheldon Siegel

At the monthly meeting of the library trustees on July 18, the board voted to approve Maurice J. (Mitch) Freedman's contract, which names him as director of the New City Library through December of 2014.

Freedman was appointed as interim director in May.

He retired from the Westchester Library System in 2005, after serving as its director for 23 years. He was president of the American Library Association and has spoken or consulted in close to 30 countries. Prior to coming to New City, Freedman served as the interim director for the Purchase Free and Nyack libraries.

Then come to your air-conditioned library and look through our children's book stacks for foreign-language or bi-lingual picture books, grab a travelling with kids guidebook, an appropriate cookbook and have an imaginary trip! How else can you be in China for breakfast, Italy for lunch, and Puerto Rico for dinner? Throughout our non-fiction stacks you will find books on celebrations in different countries and regions of the USA, cooking, geography, language, crafts.....well, you get the idea! So don't worry about packing the car, booking plane tickets and hotels - travel the world in the children's library!